Breech-loading firearm.



PATENTBD FEB. 14, 1905x G. A. HORNE. BRBECH LOADING FIREARM.

APPLICATION FILED N0v.1s,1903.

im HMI QTWLU INVENTOR Ot /forzzeyo rUNTTnn STaTns Patented February 14, 1905.

PATnNT Orricn.

GEORGE A. I-IORNE, OF SYRAGUSE, NEWT YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,248, dated February 14, 1905. Application liled November 13, 1903. Serial No. 181,077.

T0 all whom, 7215 may concern:

Be it known that LGEORGE A. HoRNn,a citizen of the United States, residing at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breech-Loading Firearms;

andI do herebydeclare the following' to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

My present invention relates to breechloading firearms, and more particularly to self-cooking ejector-guns of that class.

It consists in certain new constructions and combination of parts whereby new and improved results are obtained.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated the best mode in which I have contemplated embodying my invention, and said invention is disclosed inthe following description and claims.

In said drawings, Figure lis a central longitudinal section of a part of the gun with the fore-end in place. Fig. 2 is a partial section with the fore-end removed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view in prerspective of the cockingslide. Fig. 4i isa partial cross-section showing the relation of the cooking-slide with its supporting parts, and Fig. is a detailshowing the engagement of cooking-arm and cocking-slide.

In self-cooking guns the act of opening' the gun cocks the hammers. As the gun must be opened to separate the parts for packing in the cases provided for the storage and carriage of the guns, the hammers are cocked and remain cocked with their actuating-springs under tension. It is not desirable that such springs be so held for long periods, and various means have been provided for enabling the parts of the gun to be readily assembled with the hammers in the red position,so that hammers may be uncooked and their springs released when the gun is stored or packed for transportation. One part of my said invention consists in an improved means for accomplishing this result.

In the accompanying drawings A,1ndicates the barrels of the gun, B the stock,and O the fore-end.

A is the barrel-lug, and D is the cookingslide. (Shown most clearly in Fig.3.) This slide is composed of the horizontally-disposedbase CZ, provided with the vertical T-shaped eXtension d. The barrel-lug is recessed to receive the base ofthe cocking-slide and guide and support it in its backward and forward movements, projections c being left on each side of the lug to enter the spaces between the outwardly-extending parts 1 and 2 of the vertically-extending part of the slide and-the base. rIhe barrellug is also bored to receive the pin cl2, secured to the slide. This pin at its outer end is of a size to it the bore of the opening made in the barrel-lug and between that and the base of the cooking-slide is of a reduced size to accommodatea spring d3, which bears against the enlarged head of the pin and the shoulder a between the bored opening and the recess which receives the base of the cooking-slide D, the reduced portion of the pin passing through the part of the barrel-lug intervening between them. When the parts are assembled and in operative relation, the cookingarms rest upon the base Z of the cookingslide, as will be understood by all Sportsmen and others familiar with this class of guns.

The parts of the gun can be separated when the hammers are in the fired position by first removing the fore-end. The spring Z3 then withdraws the cocking -slide from engagement with the cooking-arms. The gun is then opened and the barrels removed from the stock. In doing this,the pin (Z2 is forced outward beyond the barrel-lug, and the same must be engaged and forced backward by the foreend in replacing the fore-end in position. In reassembling the parts the barrels are placed in position andthe gun closed. The placing of the fore-end in position then forces the cocking-slide backward beneath the cooking-arms and in proper operative relation thereto.

It will be seen that as the outer ends l and of the cooking-slide rest upon the projections c such projections receive and support the cooking-slide under the strain incident to cocking the hammers.

having a part extending upwardly between said projections and the said upwardly-extending portion having outwardly-extending portions resting on said projections, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afEX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE A. HORNE. Witnesses:

U. C. BUELL, ARTHUR C. RAYMOND. 

